For the first time, humanity has witnessed the far side of the moon with their own eyes, as stunning new photos are being unveiled.
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In the most eagerly awaited moment of the Artemis II mission, four astronauts orbited the moon on Monday, capturing breathtaking photos and making meticulous observations from the Orion spacecraft.
NASA astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen took countless pictures of the moon’s rugged landscape, vast impact craters, and dark plains.
The first newly released photo, shared by the White House on X Tuesday morning, depicts an “Earthset” taken from the far side of the moon, as the Earth fades from view.
This captivating image serves as a modern reinterpretation of the iconic “Earthrise” photograph captured during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. Unlike Apollo 8’s images, which showed the Earth coming back into view, this new photo captures the Earth as it disappears behind the moon.
William Anders / NASA
The White House also released stunning new photographs taken by Artemis II astronauts of a solar eclipse from space. This extraordinary event occurred Monday evening as the sun slipped behind the moon during the mission’s several-hour lunar flight.
Astronauts became the first humans to witness a solar eclipse from the moon. This groundbreaking image captures the dark moon with the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, glowing around its edges.
Source: www.nbcnews.com
